Mr Charles Dickens' Bleak House opens with a description of the "implacable November weather". The poet Mr TS Eliot was equally scornful when he coined the phrase, "sombre November". And who could forget a young Mr Axl Rose dolefully lamenting the "cold November rain"?
While November can be a difficult month to love - especially if you live in the northern hemisphere, where it means long nights and cold weather - we're happy to report that it's not all doom and gloom, and it turned out to be one of our favourite months of the year so far for style spotting. Click through the gallery above to see our top eight.